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Publication Agreement
Agreement: Advanced Ultrasound in Diagnosis and Therapy (AUDT) is a peer reviewed Journal. All the articles accepted will be published open access. By your signature below, you hereby transfer the copyright and related property rights to the editorial department of AUDT.
Open Access Publication of your Article: Your Article will be published under the Creative Commons CC BY attribution license in AUDT: www.audt.org.
Rights Reserved by Author: As your Article will be published under a CC BY license, you may reuse material as described in the licensing guidelines found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This includes the right to: 1.) to photocopy the Article for use in your own teaching activities, 2.) to publish the Article, or permit it to be published, as a part of any book you may write, or in any anthology of which you are an editor, in which the Article is included or which expands or elaborates on the Article. You also agree that AUDT will be given first publication credit, and proper copyright notice will be displayed on the work (both on the work as a whole and, where applicable, on the Article as well) whenever such publication occurs.
Rights of AUDT: AUDT is responsible for the dissemination of the published contents in various ways. In addition to dissemination via a CC BY license, AUDT will have the following rights among others:
1.) to license abstracts, quotations, extracts, reprints, and/or translations of the work for publication
2.) to license reprints of the Article to third persons for educational photocopying
3.) to license others to create abstracts of the Article
4.) to license secondary publishers to reproduce the Article in print, microform, or any computer readable form including electronic on-line databases. This also includes licensing the Article for document delivery.
Warranties: You warrant that the Article's text has not been published before in any form, that you have made no license or other transfer to anyone with respect to your copyright in it, that you are its sole author(s), and generally that you have the right to make the grants you make to us. Any exceptions are to be noted below. You also warrant that the Article does not libel anyone, invade anyone's privacy, infringe anyone's copyright, or otherwise violate any statutory or common law right of anyone. You agree to indemnify us against any claim or action alleging facts which, if true, constitute a breach of any of the foregoing warranties.
3rd Party Copyrighted Content: If your article contains third party copyrighted material (images, illustrations, etc.) that you do not own copyright to, please confirm that you have obtained and submitted a copy of the required releases for republication under a CC BY license. You must include proper copyright notice as required by the original copyright holder. Unless you have provided copyright notice or a credit line that attributes the content to another copyright holder, the terms of this agreement will govern that content as well.
Multiple Authors: If there is more than one author of the Article, the word “you” includes all authors jointly and severally. The corresponding author may sign on behalf of all authors if he or she has the authority to act as their agent.
Electronic Signature: You agree that this agreement may be signed with an electronic signature, that an electronic signature shall be valid and binding for all purposes, and hereby waive any objection to use of an electronic version of this agreement as a substitute for the original for any legally recognized purpose.
This is the entire agreement between you and us, and it may be modified only in writing. It will bind and benefit our respective successors in interest. It will terminate if we do not publish your Article within two years of the date of your signature(s).
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AUDT hereby acknowledges their consent to the terms of the foregoing agreement.